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[-] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe this is a hot take, but this post is very entitled. Custom server emojis and using a video platform for audio only while your phone is sleeping as basic features? You can be annoyed that these are the features they chose to be premium or you can be annoyed by how much premium costs, but you are hardly missing out on the standard experience without them. Frankly, there are better choices to complain about being premium, but compared to the past the amount of stuff we can get from the internet for free at great convenience is incredible.

Also, piracy is easy. If you use the platform a lot and don't want to pay you can often get a premium or better experience with a bit of time invested for some setup. I use xManager for Spotify and ReVanced for Youtube. Both give me an ad-free experience for free and are more customizable than the legit application. ReVanced especially allows me to get rid of a lot of the UI I don't use, change input actions, skip sponsor/intro/afk segments, and a lot more. There might be something for Tiktok too now but I haven't looked.

[-] sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This whole sequence does not make any sense. They are entitled for complaining about the standard experience, yet piracy is easy? What does that suppose to mean? If you think the standard experience is adequate then why resort to piracy? What is the entitlement referring to? According to you they can complain about the pricing and a lot of other features being paywalled, but the entitlement comes from the particular two examples they gave? Because you don't think they are important, as if the important features to you are universal? I don't get what the point of this is

[-] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The entitlement comes from the idea that these are basic features that should be available to them for free, in addition to everything else included in the free service. They are the sort of things casual users may not even be aware of. If they don't think the extra stuff is worth the price, they can just not buy them. But thinking they are overvalued is not the same thing as thinking they should be free.

If you think the standard experience is adequate then why resort to piracy?

Because I use these a lot and want something better than the standard service when it's an option. If you wanted to sell a car for $5000 and someone offered you $10,000, would you say no because $5000 was adequate?

Because you don't think they are important, as if the important features to you are universal?

I guess "importance" is relative, so I'll clarify; they do little to contribute to the main function of the apps. Youtube is a video platform, so it should allow you to watch hosted videos. Discord is a voice and text messaging app, so you should be able to send messages and join calls. They are robust enough that you can do many other things with them too, but these secondary offerings are sometimes more limited if you don't pay. The people that do choose to pay supplement the cost of offering the basic services to those that don't.

[-] sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah you are just the average piracy bad person got it. You just happen to use pirated content that's what confused me and I unfortunately engaged. And yet you somehow still didn't answer what exactly xmanager offers that Spotify premium doesn't. Make it make sense, there are no extra features, only pirated premium features that are not the main function :)

It's great seeing people defend the profits of oligarchs and monopolies and their ability to define what the standard experience is and what zero marginal cost feature can or cannot be paywalled. Which is definitely not entirely subjective, you are right to be so confident on that, you can get to tell us what the necessary functions of any app is.

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[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tiktok being able to display videos on desktop but not images is simultaneously hilarious and sad. It's baffling. Like why? How?

[-] LouNeko@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The issue is that some countries punish torrenting copyrighted material harshly. Like from fines to prison sentence, harshly. Because its a P2P connection, you're not only a consumer but also a distributor. And your ISP is fully obligated to give up your traffic data to the authorities, if asked. Almost everybody I know, knows a guy who had to pay +$3000 fines for downloading songs or movies trough torrent. The alternatives are hosting sites. But let's be honest, a 1080p fully length movie is upwards of 2GB, and most hosting sites either limit you to 500MB per day or give you a download speed of 100KB/s. Of course you could pay for a premium account, but A, this will leave a paper trail, and B, there are more hosting sites than streaming services, and the prices are somewhat the same. So for people in these countries it is not viable to just pirate everything.

[-] whats_all_this_then@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Lots of countries just don't care about you downloading pirated content though, they just punish distribution.

I don't really have that problem but for the places that do punish downloading, I hear VPNs can be helpful to mask your traffic and that ISPs don't really care enough to pursue as long as you're not blatant about it and have plausible deniability ("no, I just downloaded a linux ISO that happened to be exactly the size of a whole season of , total coincidence")

Obviously not legal advice though.

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[-] chuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=teach+your+children+well&&view=detail&mid=C690AB9952C4A72178A0C690AB9952C4A72178A0&&FORM=VRDGAR

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[-] Strawberry 1 points 1 year ago

I pat for discord nitro so that I can stream netflix in 1080p to my friends who don't have it

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Great summary and the guideline of my online life...

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